Born on December 15th, 1793, and entered the Madras Army as Assistant Surgeon on January 9th, 1817, being promoted to Surgeon on August 17th, 1829, and to Superintending Surgeon on November 23th, 1843. He saw active service in the Third Maratha or Pindari or Dekkan War in 1817-1818 and in Burma in 1824-1825. He is included by Lieut-Colonel Crawford in the list of twenty-nine members of the Indian Medical Service who were elected Fellows on August 26th, 1844. He died at Coimbatore on September 2nd, 1847.